Overview of Verivo’s Akula 2.0 open, standards-based enterprise mobile application platform. If you are responsible for your organization’s mobile app architecture, development or day-to-day management, this is a must-see presentation! Learn how to take enterprise mobile app development, security and governance to the next level.
Verivo Akula 2.0 - Development, Security and Governance of Enterprise Mobile Apps
1. Akula 2.0: Develop, Secure and Govern your
Enterprise Mobile Apps
June 5, 2014
Gregg Bjork, COO
Mark Wagner, Senior Product Marketing Manager
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3. About Verivo Software
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• Founded in 1999
• Focus on enabling mobility in the enterprise
• Released 2 commercial platforms for building
and deploying apps
Verivo Software
Veterans in the mobile
application industry
Verivo Customers
A track record of mobile
app success with over
500 apps deployed
• Early mobile apps: built apps for Wall Street
• Devices proliferate: delivered AppStudio, a
MEAP to build apps quickly
• Apps proliferate: delivered Akula, an open
platform to develop, secure and govern apps
Verivo Evolution
Increasing velocity as the
mobile market evolves
4. Mobile Apps - the New Untamed Frontier
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Mobility: #1 marketing, sales, productivity tool
In everyone’s hands
Access to personal and location data
Fast and convenient
Apps: Cannot secure, manage or govern
IT has no visibility
Security difficult to control
Policy changes hard to enact
Data breaches
Loss of productivity
Compliance violations
Huge
risk
Huge
opportunity
5. Mobile Technology – State of the Art
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# Apps
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Open Platform
Closed Platforms
Consulting Build
Buy
Many vendors – crowded
market segment
Limited by vendor features
Packaged
applications
Limited
functionality
Build out existing SOA
infrastructure
Ad hoc approach: expensive
to build, expensive to
maintain
Enterprises are migrating up, right
Early adopters in our CAB built
similar infrastructure – validates
approach
6. Technology Shift: Strategic Approach to Building Apps
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app
bus. logic
security
data access
data sync
bus. logic
1-OffApproachAkulaInfrastructure
IT control Development teams
Corporate Systems
UI / UX
UI / UX
UI / UX
UI / UX
Corporate Systems
extensible,
open server
security
data access
data sync
bus. logic
develop – secure - govern
hard to update - hard to secure - expensive
app
bus. logic
security
data access
data sync
ent. service
app
UI / UX
security
data access
data sync
bus. logic
app
UI / UX
security
data access
data sync
bus. logic
7. A More Sophisticated App Lifecycle with Akula
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Architect
IT / Ops
Mobile App
Development
Teams
Developer Benefits
• Use any IDE, practices
• Only focuses on
UI / UX
• Easy to reuse
existing services
Architect Benefits
• Leverages existing SOA
infrastructure
• Integrates seamlessly with
security architecture
• Can extend with custom
services
Ops Benefits
• Control of, and visibility into
mobile services
• Apps security is centralized
• Updates: update service
once, not apps
8. Verivo Akula: Extend SOA to Mobile
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Corporate Systems
SOA
Accommodate for…
• Small, low-bandwidth devices
• Mobile security
• Unreliable connectivity
• Multiple mobile platforms (BYOD)
…by providing services for
• Security and governance policies
• Data access
• Data sync
• SOAP REST
• Authentication
• Entitlements
• Off-line availability
• App management
• Monitoring
• Tracking
• Extensible – add services as needed
develop - secure - govern
9. Verivo Akula – Enterprise Mobile App Platform
JDBC
<CUSTOM>
REST
SOAP
CUSTOM
LOGIC
JOIN
FILTER
SELECT
TRANSFORM
CREDENTIAL STORAGE
ENTITLEMENTS
APP PROPERTIES / POLICY
AUTHENTICATION
JMX
DEPLOYMENT SERVICES
GEOSERVICESNOTIFICATIONS
DATA SYNC AND OFFLINE
STORE API LOCAL
STORE
CONTENT STORE
SECURITY POLICY
APP PROPERTIES
AUTHENTICATION/LOGIN
(offline login)
DATA MODEL ENTITIES
MANAGEMENT
CONSOLE SNMP
JMX
AD – LDAP -
JDBC - <CUSTUM>
DATABASE MEDIA SOCIAL
MAPPING CMS SAP
SALESFORCE REST <CUSTOM>
SYSTEM
ADMINISTRATION
PLATFORMS
SCOM TIVOLI
ENTERPRISE SECURITY & POLICY
MANAGEMENT
& CONTROL APIs
MOBILE APP SERVICES
UNICENTER
10. Akula 2.0: Giving IT more Control, Visibility, and Governance
Client Actions
What: Akula service can push an action (data wipe, update
permissions, app properties etc.) asynchronously to any client
device and monitor execution
Why: Gives IT granular control over apps running on devices;
Unique to Verivo Akula
Push Notifications
What: unified API for sending alerts, badges, and sounds to
individual users, groups, or roles
Why: Allows direct communication with users
Management Console
What: Web-based GUI console for full management of Akula apps
(authorization, client actions, push notifications, client login and
sync rules, security and governance policies )
Why: simplifies app control, visibility and governance
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CRM app – secure connection
Works off-line
Full management and control
12. The Akula Edge
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1. Eliminate data breaches – Security for mobile apps
2. Increase velocity - Reuse mobile service
3. Ensure compliance – Centralized governance
4. Complete visibility – tracking from IT to device
5. Extensible – no limits
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